Foucault in
Subtitle: (205 words from Simeon Wade's manuscript 'Foucault in California')
By: by Olaf Nicolai
Contributors: Benedetti, Lorenzo; Roma Publications (Firm); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Series: Roma publication -- #332; ROMA publication -- 332.
Publisher: Roma Publications; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Amsterdam; [St. Gallen, Switzerland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Exhibitions; Words in art; 20.54
Other titles: That's a God-forsaken place; but it's beautiful, isn't it?
Description: "Michel Foucault was invited to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975. During his visit, Simeon Wade, who assisted and accompanied Foucault, persuaded him to join him and his partner, Michael Stoneman, on a trip to Death Valley and Zabriskie Point, where Foucault took LSD for the first time. Wade wrote about this experience in his unpublished manuscript Foucault in California. When Olaf Nicolai asked to use excerpts from the text for an artist's publication, he was permitted a maximum of 250 words. He selected 205 words from throughout the manuscript. Although the broader contents can only be guessed at, this abbreviated text is itself a trip."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Published on the occasion of Olaf Nicolai's exhibition "That's a God-forsaken place; but it's beautiful, isn't it?" held at Lokremise/Kunstmuseum St. Gallen from July 7-November 11, 2018, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti.

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